Earthquake in Pakistan and Afghanistan

Large portions of Pakistan and Afghanistan were shaken by a strong earthquake that left at least 12 people dead and more than 200 injured.

Buildings were damaged by the 6.5-magnitude earthquake, which also caused landslides and forced residents to flee into the streets.It happened on Tuesday night and was centred in a hilly area in northern Afghanistan, close to the Pakistani border.

India was affected by the tremors coming from the isolated Jurm valley.

“The tremor was terrifying. I had never experienced a tremor like that in my life “Khatera, a native of Kabul, spoke to AFP after hurriedly leaving her residence on the fifth floor.Nine of the verified fatalities were recorded in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa valley.According to the spokesman for the Afghan health ministry, three more people died in Afghanistan. According to AFP, among those murdered in the Laghman province near the Pakistani border of the nation was a toddler.

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As the earthquake struck, several families were out of the house celebrating Norwuz, the Persian New Year.

Yet according to AFP, the damage so far has been less than anticipated, according to emergency personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.But, relief and rescue efforts are expected to be slowed down by the remoteness and difficult terrain of the affected districts.

Many people in the affected areas braved the cold after the earthquake to spend the night outside out of concern for aftershocks. When they felt the shaking, some hurried barefoot out of their homes.A large multi-story residential building in Islamabad’s capital was evacuated when significant fractures started to show in the structure.

Phone connections have been impacted, and in Pakistan, landslides have blocked the highway in the worst-affected Swat region.

Shehbaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan, has requested that emergency action be taken by disaster relief organisations.According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, tremors were detected throughout a 1,000 km area that includes India, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, and Turkmenistan.

Due to its location at the confluence of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, this area is more susceptible to experience earthquakes.The deadliest earthquake to hit Afghanistan in nearly 25 years rocked the Paktika province in June of last year, killing more than 1,000 people.